Adjunct Faculty, English

Adjunct Faculty, English – 24000000BR 

Description

UTC English Department’s Composition Program serves undergraduate students across all university degree programs. We help students develop the critical thinking, analysis, and writing skills necessary for academic success. 

Composition students learn to synthesize information from multiple texts and perspectives, respond to the needs of diverse audiences, and adapt their writing for different contexts, purposes, and technologies. 

Adjunct instructors are responsible for teaching beginning students how to use rhetorical concepts and writing processes, to conduct appropriate research, and to give and to receive feedback to beginning students. Faculty are responsible for: 

• Preparing syllabi, assignment sheets, and course activities
• Fostering student engagement using current rhetoric and writing pedagogical practices
• Working with students to develop skills to engage their own process
• Offering feedback on multiple iterations of student projects
• Assessing student projects and recording grades

Minimum Qualifications: Instructor with a Master’s degree with 18 graduate hours in English or a related field. 

Preferred Qualifications: Rhetoric and/or writing teaching experience preferred.

Please submit a PDF of your cover letter, resume, and, if available, sample teaching materials. 

If you have questions about the position, please contact the Director of Composition, listed on English Faculty and Staff nearmejobs.eu University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (utc.edu)

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is the second-largest campus in the University of Tennessee System and serves a diverse student body of more than 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students through five academic colleges. Since its founding as Chattanooga University in 1886, UTC has established a reputation for excellence built on a unique blend of the private and public traditions of American higher education. Today, UTC brings a passion for excellence in all pursuits and is dedicated to making a difference in our community and in the lives of our students. 

At UTC, we welcome and cultivate diverse perspectives and populations—whether shaped by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, intellectual diversity, political beliefs and other life experiences and ideologies—and embrace equity and inclusion. 

UTC is a university distinguished by respect for the dignity, uniqueness, and value of every individual. We foster a campus community that is welcoming and inclusive of all. We value diversity in our workplace and learning environments, benefiting from the varied backgrounds and abilities of our campus community. The diversity of our voices and experiences is vital to our pursuit of excellence and fulfillment of our mission. 

UTC is in the heart of Tennessee’s fourth-largest city, located in the southeastern part of the state near the border with Georgia and at the junction of four interstate highways. Conveniently situated within just a two-hour drive from Atlanta, Nashville, Knoxville and Birmingham, Chattanooga offers the opportunity to live and learn in an exciting and enchanting environment. Dubbed the ‘Scenic City,’ and endowed with incredible vistas and popular area attractions, the city has been recognized nationally for its downtown renaissance and a revitalized riverfront that has become the blueprint for other cities to emulate. Chattanooga achieved the first gig internet capacity in the country, and today has the nation’s fastest internet service with a 100% fiber network that links every residence and business in a 600-square mile area. 

The city is home to companies such as Unum, McKee Foods, U.S. Xpress, Volkswagen, Coke United, and Amazon, and a number of tech startups attracted to its blazing fast internet and low cost-of-living. Thousands of visitors are drawn yearly to the Tennessee Aquarium, Lookout Mountain, Civil War battlefield sites, the Bessie Smith Cultural Center—Chattanooga African American Museum, Creative Discovery Museum for Children, Riverbend Festival, and the weekly Nightfall Summer Concert Series held in the heart of downtown. Chattanooga also has a long and rich history interwoven with the Civil Rights movement and Native American heritage. The Trail of Tears National Historic Route runs through the city and is on the traditional territory of Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East). 

Whether it’s Chattanooga’s ideal geographical location with comfortable temperatures year-round to suit an active lifestyle, its cultural and culinary diversity, reasonable cost of living, world-class healthcare facilities, reputable educational institutions like UTC, or countless other reasons, it’s no wonder more and more people are choosing to make Chattanooga their home. 

The University of Tennessee Chattanooga is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status. 

Qualifications

Job

Faculty 

Primary Location

US-Tennessee-Chattanooga 

Organization

Chattanooga 

Campus/Institute Chattanooga 

Schedule

Part-time 

Job Posting

Feb 14, 2024, 7:29:26 PM 

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